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South Korea expands state assets; Japan tightens 'crypto' rules
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Fusion42 · 22 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
South Korea is modernising state asset management to include digital assets and tokenised government bonds, with a 2027 pilot programme to reduce transaction costs and a February 2027 rollout of tokenised securities rules. Japan has reclassified digital assets as financial instruments under stricter trading rules, insider-trading prohibitions, and criminal penalties of up to ten years imprisonment for unregistered operators.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Crypto & Web3.
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If you're building tokenisation or digital asset infrastructure in Asia-Pacific, two major markets just opened their regulatory doors—but they're closing the gaps that let retail investors get hurt. South Korea wants to tokenise government bonds and real estate by 2027; Japan wants the same assets treated like stocks, with the same insider-trading rules and prison time for cheaters. Your compliance and custody layer just became table-stakes.
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